Hi, mixing quotes (sorry). Yesterday I moved this debate to maemo-developers since the current topic about repositores and policies affects developers only. See Bugs at maemo for extras apps (was Re: Steve's Ranty Review...) http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2007-October/012239.html It's difficult to follow efficiently both lists looking for topics relating to developers (specially if the threads in maemo-users end up discussing topics different than the subject). > Then these issues need to be fixed. Failing to centralise the > available packages negates a potential massive advantage (for users, Repositories mess: conclusions and actions http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2007-October/012192.html > Personally, I'd urge Nokia to find someone (who understands the > issues of e.g. library packaging) to have a thorough read of Debian > policy and come up with a maemo policy at least partly based on it - > this will be necessary to ensure that everything in the repository or > repositories will "play friendly" and DTRT. Do you know we have Debian maintainers (and I would say experts) in our team. btw a maemo packaging policy is underways, we are still polishing details before share it for community review. -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org
